William Esson
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William Esson, FRS (17 May 1838 – 28 August 1916) was a British mathematician.
Early life
He was born in Carnoustie, Scotland.[1]
Esson attended St John's College, Oxford.
Career
He then became a Fellow of Merton College.[2] In 1892, he became the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford, based at New College. He worked on problems in chemistry with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt.
In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1895 delivered, jointly with Harcourt, their Bakerian Lecture on the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions of a Chemical Change and its Amount. III. Further Researches on the Reaction of Hydrogen Dioxide and Hydrogen Iodide.[3]
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School until 1900.[4]
Personal life
In 1874, Esson leased 13 Bradmore Road in North Oxford.[5] He died in Abingdon, England.[6]
References
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- ↑ Obituary notice, Fellow: Esson, William, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 77, p.299, 1917MNRAS..77..299., The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- ↑ Obituary, Royal Society of Chemistry
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- ↑ GRO Register of Deaths: Deaths SEP 1916 2c 348 ABINGDON — Willian Esson, aged 78
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- 1838 births
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- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- Scottish mathematicians
- Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
- Fellows of New College, Oxford
- Savilian Professors of Geometry
- 19th-century British mathematicians
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Governors of Abingdon School